Actually, that portion of the 2nd Amendment is discussed all the time. Many feel that the 2nd Amendment is no longer relevant because we have no need to assemble a militia. We have a standing military, and law enforcement. But there is much more to the 2nd Amendment. Volumes have been written regarding the intent and interpretation of those 27 words. The intent has been describes by the founding fathers that drafted the Amendment. The interpretations have followed ever since, including those from the Supreme Court of the United States. There are two very recent and relevant landmark rulings by the court, District of Columbia v. Heller 2008 and McDonald v. Chicago 2010. Both decisions were to uphold rulings in lower courts that the local gun restrictions in each of these areas were unconstitutional. But the decisions from the Surpreme Court also included interpretations of the 2nd Amendment. Key to your point above, the court ruled that the amendment consists of two independent clauses, one being the bit about the well regulated Militia and the bit about the right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed. The court ruled that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed supercedes the clause of the well regulated Militia. This was to prevent those from using the clause of a well regulated Militia as a means of invalidating the need to bear arms. The court interpreted that the right to bear arms was valid for the purposes of self defense, as a means of addressing a tyrranical government or to quell opposition from a hostile government.

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I do have a few reasons why I believe in the second amendment. But most have already been said but I do have one main reason. If the government can get rid of an amendment witch was created to stop governments tyranny then who says that in time they won't slowly get rid of all of...

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I believe that Americans should all be trained to carry their own gun. If a sociopath wants to shoot up a school, there should be law-biding citizens shooting back.

The Founding Fathers of the United States were brilliant. I think it becomes more and more obvious as we get older, and see through our own experiences what they knew well over 200 years ago.
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